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August 12, 2008
To Local Area Charitable
Organizations:
This Fall a significant funding
opportunity will be available to local area charitable (501(c)(3))
organizations. Students at the University of
Mary Washington will be able to take a course entitled ECON 324-Economics
of Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector. The aspect of the course of most
interest to you is the semester-long class project. Thanks to the generosity of Doris Buffett's Sunshine Lady Foundation, the class
has been given $10,000 which it will use to make grants to local charitable
organizations.
My students will simulate the
activities of a foundation. They will
write a mission statement, solicit applications for funds, and select
recipients. The class starts on August 26. The mission statement and
application form should be available on or about October 1. The
application deadline will be on or about November 1. The grant (or
grants) will be announced at a public ceremony on Tuesday, December 2.
Additional details will be posted as they become known on the project web page
at http://people.umw.edu/~rrycroft/philanthropy2008.
This is the fourth year the
course has been offered. Previous
recipients of grants have included Hope House, the Fredericksburg Regional Boys
and Girls Club, Rebuilding Together, Homes for
We anticipate this course to be
an annual offering at UMW for quite some time in the future.
Please feel free to circulate
this message among your associates.
I will be happy to answer your
questions about the project. Please
contact me by e-mail at rrycroft@umw.edu or by phone at
540-654-1500.
Yours truly,
Robert S Rycroft
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
540-654-1500